418 Quotes by Mary Roach

Seriously hairy shit was going down on a regular basis.

the act of vomiting deserves your respect. It's an orchestral event of the gut.

Silletti and I, for instance, chewed out cotton wads for the same amount of time. I produced .78 milliliters of stimulated saliva; she produced 1.4. She tried to reassure me. "It doesn't say anything about how good you are or how good I am with saliva.""Erika, I'm a dried up husk.""Don't say that, Mary.

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.

What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology. Someone who is perhaps himself an unpretty fact of biology.

Moeller, who has tasted a naked Cheeto, likens it to a piece of unsweetened puffed corn cereal

Most of them students from the nearby University of Dayton...

Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.